Executive coaching is a collaborative process designed to accelerate the growth of a motivated senior professional. It is typically goals and action-based and it is tailored to an individual and their unique skill set and circumstances. I received my Executive Coaching accreditation from Co-Active Training Institute in 2018.

Coaching relationships start with an intake questionnaire and a personality typing exercise. This helps clarify the coaching goals and gives you an objective view of some of your habits and comfort zones. Typically, our first 2 meetings are discovery sessions. We will review your intake questionnaire, review your personality typing and do a live exercise designed to bring clarity to what is working well for you today. We will also include some coaching on what is going on right now to ensure we hit the ground running.

Usually the client will come to each session with an agenda of what they want to work on that day and that work will relate to the overall objectives of the engagement. This list is generated by a combination of what we uncover in the discovery sessions and what is dominating your life in the time between sessions. During coaching sessions, I’ll ask you a lot of open-ended questions to see what it is you really want (not just what you think you “should” want) and then we will examine together whether there are narratives that are keeping you from building what you really want. Generally, coaching sessions occur twice a month and are typically 50 minutes long.

Yes! And you will love it. Books and other out-of-session work are a learning accelerator in the coaching process. Rather than spend weeks or months having me try to recreate the brilliance and wisdom that already exists, I frequently ask clients to read books. This “homework” frequently involves reading a book that might give you a new perspective on an issue we are coaching on or sets the groundwork for future learning.

Sometimes you will want guidance on a business issue that falls into one of my areas of expertise (e.g. my experience building and leading teams in high growth companies). When we do that I’ll tell you that I am “taking my coaching hat off” so we are clear that I am consulting (I’m providing an answer) and not coaching in those moments.

Coaching will stir things up. Sometimes it gets personal. I’ll keep all that personal information confidential and I’ll create a space where you can be your most authentic self. I’ll be authentic too. I will hold the mirror up, and I will challenge you to take on issues that might intimidate or frighten you and I’ll do so in service to our relationship.